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[L0la H4vana]

Zero Punctuation is funny as heck and so is his response to the big man Sony. Geez, can't people laugh about anything anymore without it turning into an argument of who's right and who's wrong.
Who cares as long as you're having fun! Ha.

Seriously that guy makes me piss my pants. And at the same time his reviews are legitimately good too in my opinion.

Love me some Dunkey too. That Last Guardian review, oh my god. Stitches.

 

[GHG]

Why would George Lucas allow Family Guy to make fun of their Star Wars movies and why would Disney never allow that?

 

[R6Rider]

This topic is funnier than anything Yahtzee would have done with his review copy.

 

[Bragr]

Good, fewer people should get copies, because 90% of the game journalists out there are just blog writers with no credibility. Including this guy.

 

[Spitfire098]

Probably one of the most-watched reviewers on the internet, huge influence in gaming.

For example, the term Glorious PC Master race was from his Witcher review.

 

[VCAwe]

Who cares? Some of you are extremely weird.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

That stung so deep dude, are you ALSO a standup commedian !
So talented, please tell more about it.

You'll recover.

 

[spawn]

They're a private business. They can do what they want dude. Also, no one knows who the fuck this reviewer is. I guarantee Xbox does the same thing to other reviewers. You Xbox guys really acting like Microsoft is the god of gaming that can do no wrong and throw shade at Sony

 

[BaneIsPain]

That sense of entitlement. Just buy it like the rest of us.

 

[Interfectum]

 

[Karak]

Can't say that is out of the ordinary. PR folks many times will tell you why if you ask, sometimes if you don't. They ultimately aim for a particular target and get coverage from those that they can.

 

[nowhat]

Can't say that is out of the ordinary. PR folks many times will tell you why if you ask, sometimes if you don't. They ultimately aim for a particular target and get coverage from those that they can.

Read the whole thread bruh. You are way out of touch - this is not how the industry works, and is completely on Sony.

I'm sometimes sad I need to add these obvious sarcasm additions.

 

[Bo_Hazem]

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart - Zero Punctuation - The Escapist

This week on Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee reviews Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, the exclusively PlayStation 5 adventure from Insomniac Games.

www.escapistmagazine.com

How far up their own ass are Sony nowadays. Holy shit.

Censoring Japanese games, not giving reviewers copies, because they don't like their style?

I am very happy, that I did not buy a PS5.

 

[Bryank75]

 

[MrLove]

MS and Nintendo did no give me a review copy of of any game.

Im very happy to not buy a Xbox

 

[Bo_Hazem]

Ahhh, so he prefers to get canned (allowed) footage of games and no 8th gen console review codes so that people can be mislead? Nice.

So he's just a click whore even with misleading content. Glad they skipped him, and happy that the OP didn't buy a PS5 just to lower the population of the usual "neutral" actors around GAF.

 

[Rubik8]

So? That guy’s style is to shit on everything, even things he likes. I’m surprised he gets any advanced copies of anything.

 

[Fbh]

Come on, Zero Punctuation hardly passes as an actual review. It's more like a snarky comedy video based around new gaming releases.
1 and a half minute into his 6 minutes "review" of rift apart and he is still talking about the title of the game.

 

[Rat Rage]

I think Zero Punctuation sucks too.

 

[Brigandier]

Who gives a fuck... Buy your own copy, self entitled jerk off.

Why would anyone even be mad about some YouTube comedian (not funny) not being given a free game, crazy people.

 

[Derktron]

Who Is this?

 

[Marvel]

Cry moar

 

[Nautilus]

I mean, its their right not to send a code.

I dont necessarily agree, but it's their game and all.They are not obliged to give preference to ones they don't want to.

 

[Derktron]

Damn, where is my free copy then, I'll review it and give it 100/100 and a million out of a million.

 

[LiquidMetal14]

Preposterous, UNCONSTITUTIONAL, unfathomable.

 

[HawarMiran]

His Cyberpunk review had over a million views on youtube, so about 10 -15 times of you average Kotaku / Polygon coverage.

 

[ethomaz]

Probably one of the most-watched reviewers on the internet, huge influence in gaming.

For example, the term Glorious PC Master race was from his Witcher review.

These are actually false.

He is not a reviewer so he can’t br the most-watched reviewer on internet… at best he is the most watched parody show for games in the internet.

Glorious PC Master race term exists before the guy was born.

 

[Cre8]

Is op gonna get a free PS5 from the reviewer since he's astroturfing for him?

 

[dDoc]

Wow OP really has it for Sony doesn't he.

It's their fault, shouldn't have pissed in his cereal.

 

[alabtrosMyster]

The clean YouTubers buy their own copies when the conditions for a review copies don't work out the way they want.... And yes, companies pick and choose, style is only one aspect of the decision (sometimes they just want revenge for a bad review).

 

[Optimus Lime]

'Internet blogger didn't get free game' is definitely the kind of heartbreaking tragedy that puts the coronavirus in perspective. I just thank Yahtzee for sharing his struggle with the world, and I hope that he makes a video featuring a seemingly endless cascade of progressively less funny hyperbole that will thrill his preteen/manchild audience.

The fact that a young man can't wake up one morning and go 'yes, I am a reviewer now' and automatically receive free shit for life brings tears to my eyes.

 

[Keihart]

These are actually false.

He is not a reviewer so he can’t br the most-watched reviewer on internet… at best he is the most watched parody show for games in the internet.

Glorious PC Master race term exists before the guy was born.

On January 23rd, 2008, online video game magazine The Escapist[2] published a review episode of the PC game The Witcher[1] as part of their review series “Zero Punctuation.”[3] In the video, the narrator quips how The Witcher's complex structure makes the gaming experience optimized for PC users so that “those dirty console playing peasants don’t ruin it for the glorious PC gaming master race.” Within six years, the episode gathered over 400 comments and 650 Facebook likes on the Escapist website.

 

[Lupingosei]

Glorious PC Master race term exists before the guy was born.

PC Master Race - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

In 2008, comedic writer Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw employed the comedically extreme term "Glorious PC Gaming Master Race" in a Zero Punctuation video-review for the role-playing game The Witcher for the online gaming magazine The Escapist.[6] Croshaw explained that his initial intent in referencing Nazi Germany's master race ideology when he coined the intense term 'Glorious PC Gaming Master Race' was to poke fun at an elitist attitude he perceived among some of the Witcher's PC playerbase at the time of The Witcher's release, who had complained about the PC release of the game being possibly negatively affected by the console port of the game:[7]

The Glorious PC Gaming Master Race

The Glorious PC Gaming Master Race is a facetious label used to attribute superiority to those who prefer to play video games on a personal computer (PC). Conversely, those who prefer to play games on a console are sarcastically referred to as “dirty console peasants.” Although initially used in...

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Origin​

On January 23rd, 2008, online video game magazine The Escapist[2] published a review episode of the PC game The Witcher[1] as part of their review series “Zero Punctuation.”[3] In the video, the narrator quips how The Witcher's complex structure makes the gaming experience optimized for PC users so that “those dirty console playing peasants don’t ruin it for the glorious PC gaming master race.” Within six years, the episode gathered over 400 comments and 650 Facebook likes on the Escapist website.

History

PC Master Race: Spearheading the Second Glorious Age of PC Gaming

pcmasterrace.org

The term "The Glorious PC Gaming Master Race" was used as an ironic expression to describe PC Gamers by game reviewer and comedic writer "Yahtzee" on a review for The Witcher.

 

[Optimus Lime]

On January 23rd, 2008, online video game magazine The Escapist[2] published a review episode of the PC game The Witcher[1] as part of their review series “Zero Punctuation.”[3] In the video, the narrator quips how The Witcher's complex structure makes the gaming experience optimized for PC users so that “those dirty console playing peasants don’t ruin it for the glorious PC gaming master race.” Within six years, the episode gathered over 400 comments and 650 Facebook likes on the Escapist website.

 

[Lupingosei]

 

[Optimus Lime]

 

[ManaByte]

People who spent too much time on the internet and think that such things actually matter.

 

[Optimus Lime]

People who spent too much time on the internet and think that such things actually matter.

People assembling multi-part posts to PROVE who came up with the phrase 'PC master race' is one of the most crushingly autistic things I've ever seen. It really is an argument for forced sterilization.

 

[Lupingosei]

People who spent too much time on the internet and think that such things actually matter.

I see you know how to argue like a 6-year-old kid, your Kung Fu is very strong.

 

[Optimus Lime]

I see you know how to argue like a 6-year-old kid, your Kung Fu is very strong.

I hope the nurses at the hospital are supervising your computer use.

 

[Lupingosei]

People assembling multi-part posts to PROVE who came up with the phrase 'PC master race' is one of the most crushingly autistic things I've ever seen. It really is an argument for forced sterilization.

 

[oagboghi2]

People are defending this. If you do not play as Sony wants it, you don't get a review code.

And while defending they are not shy in showing their absolute ignorance when it comes to gaming.

Every company does this. What part of this do you not understand?

 

[Optimus Lime]

 

[Lupingosei]

 

[Javthusiast]

Yahtzee is as stale and one note as Sterling.

 

[Optimus Lime]

 

[Ovek]

I bet they gave codes to tarts on twitch who just sit in a kids paddling pool. Makes you think….

 

[ManaByte]

I bet they gave codes to tarts on twitch who just sit in a kids paddling pool. Makes you think….

People actually watch those streams though.

 

[Pegasus Actual]

TIL that Yahtzz still exists and is relevant.

says LIVE ON TWITCH with 3 viewers

 

[oagboghi2]

says LIVE ON TWITCH with 3 viewers

Why do people have thin skin about the Escapists lack of relevance?